Mistango Choir Festival

The Addison Singers concert – ‘Shakespeare & all that jazz!’ The Addison Chamber Choir & Jazz Ensemble unite.

  • Saturday 12th July 2014 @ 7.30pm

    St Andrew’s Church, Greyhound Road, London W14 9SA (opposite Normand Rd)  

    Free street parking available.

     

     

    Jazz and classical music combine forces in this light hearted concert.  The Chamber Choir celebrate the 450th anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare and sing settings of well-known Shakespeare texts written in the Bard's own time as well as more recent settings by English, American and Swedish composers:

    *  Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? - Nils Lindberg

    *  It was a lover and his lass - John Rutter

    *  Shakespeare Songs Book III - Matthew Harris

    *  Who is Sylvia - George Shearing

    *  Fear no more - Stephen Sondheim

    Meanwhile the Jazz Ensemble present a great selection of jazz and pop songs including:

    *  That Old Black Magic, Penny Lane, Somewhere, You’re the Top, Misty, Sing Sing Sing, It Had to be You, The Best is Yet to Come …..

    and with a piano duet and all the singers together, a show stopping rendition of A Handful of Keys!

     

    Tickets in advance £10, concessions £8, under 16's £2, from http://www.addison-singers.org.uk/event/chamber-choir-jazz-ensemble-joint-concert  or £12 / £10 / £2 on the door. The conductors are David Wordsworth & Matthew Hough. For more info about the choir or tickets, go to http://www.addison-singers.org.uk

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